ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people ...

There were no human injuries reported, but two pets died, according to fire officials. The home is "a total loss" and the family has been displaced, officials said. Portland FD shared a GoFundMe ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...